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The
Education department screens films that support the museum’s
mission and educate the visitors of MoPA. Many of the educational
film screenings are collaborations with other cultural institutions
and are scheduled to support current exhibitions on view in MoPA’s
galleries. All of our film screenings are presented in the Joan
& Irwin Jacobs Theater, an intimate, comfortable space for
one to tap into the history of cinema.
San
Diego Italian Film Festival
FREE Mini Series NOW showing
Cinema Paradiso
Thursday, May 8 at 7 pm
A boy, Salvatore, enchanted by the movies shown at the local theater,
befriends Alfredo, the gruff but warmhearted projectionist. The
time and
place is a small Sicilian village after the devastating war. Giuseppe
Tornatore, the famous director, skillfully explores the role of
the cinema
in the social and religious life of the villagers.
One of the best known foreign-language films of its era, Cinema
Paradiso has
the ability to touch the hearts of its audience and reawaken its
love and
appreciation of the movies. It won the Academy Award for Best
Foreign Film
in 1990, and is credited, by some, with reviving Italy's
film industry that
later produced Mediterraneo and Life is Beautiful.
Indian
Film Festival with San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) and MoPA present a film festival
in conjunction with Rhythms of India at SDMA and Humanitas: Images
of India by Fredric Roberts at MoPA. The film festival is curated
by KPBS film critic Beth Accomando.
7:00
p.m., Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater
$7 members, $8 students, $10 nonmembers
(includes admission to both museums through Sunday, June 1, 2008)
Charulata
(1964, NR, 120 minutes)
May 13, Tuesday
In
Victorian India, a restless young woman struggles to come to
terms with her enforced upper-class idleness, suppressed literary
talent, and illicit love for her husband’s cousin. Charulata
is widely considered Ray’s most accomplished film, as
well as being the director’s personal favorite.
The
River (1951, NR, 99 minutes)
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
In this lyrical and heartwarming film from director Claude Renoir
(and assisted by Satyajiy Ray), The River tells of three teenage
girls growing up in Bengal, India, near a large river, each one
developing a crush on a one-legged American vet.
Born
Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids (2004, R, 85
minutes)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Amidst the apparent growing prosperity of India, there is a
dark underbelly of poverty in another side of the nation that
is little known. This film is a chronicle of filmmakers Zana
Briski’s and Ross Kauffman’s efforts to show that
world of Calcutta’s red light district.
POP Thursdays
(Photography off the Prado)
MoPA’s nighttime series blends photography and film with
drinks and music?into a party like no other.
El
Mariachi (1992)
May 15, 2008
Event begins at 6:00 p.m., film begins at 7:00 p.m.
Free to MoPA members, $6 nonmembers
El
Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family
tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has
another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case.
The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi for the killer
and chase him around town. Don't miss the 1992 cult classic, El
Mariachi, from a seat in MoPA's theater or as it's projected along
the museum's atrium wall.
Enjoy
the vive. Grab a drink from the bar. Take in the art. Snap a portrait
in one of MoPA's antique photo booths. Get crafty with interactive
projects.
Not
a MoPA member? Call (619) 238-7559 x202 or join online [link to
membership].
Link
in to the POP Thursdays
website for more info and pics!
Check
out the MoPA
MySpace Page for POP Photos and More!
Mark
your calendar for future POP Thursdays:
August 28, 2008 – Animal House
Support
for POP Thursdays is generously provided by: VeeV, Tijuana Brewing
Company, Cucapá Brewing Company, Klaster Beer, Handcarved
Graphics and TrebleZine
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